Series: Blackwell History of Russia

Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II
as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and
Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern
Soviet and Russian history. * Presents one of the only histories of
the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes
beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first
century * Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows for
insights that are missed in chronological histories * Draws on a
wide range of sources and the very latest research on post-Soviet
history, a rapidly developing field * Supported by further reading,
bibliography, maps and illustrations.